Needle-threading attachment for looping-hooks



(No Model.)

. J. R. GOURD.- NEEDLE TEEEADING ATTACHMENT FOR LOOPING HOOKS. No. 418,613.; Patented. Dec; 31, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J OHN R. GOURD, OF WVEST QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS,

NEEDLE-.THREAD'ING ATTACHMENT FOR LOOPlNG-HOOKS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 418,613, dated December 31, 1889. Application filed April 8, 1889. Serial No. 306,287. (No model.)

.the edge of a knit fabric upon the pins or points of a looping-machine. WVhile this work is being performed the machine is usuallyin operation, eifecting thelooping together of the edges of the fabric impaled upon the pins, and it not infrequently happens that the yarn employed by the looping-needle breaks and runs out of the eye of the latter. Where woolen yarns are employed in the looping process, it is difficult, once the yarn breaks and runs out of the needle, to again thread the same.

It is the object of my invention to provide said looping-hooks with means which, while not affecting their present utility, will enable the operator to quickly and without difficulty rethreadan unthreaded needle, thus saving much time and avoiding one of the great perplexities incident to uniting knit fabrics.

To this end my improvements consist in such a looper or looping-hook provided with a hook for threading theloopingneedles, and also in certain details of construction, as hereinafter described.

Of the drawings hereunto annexed, and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective-view of my improved loopinghook with the needle-threading hook folded into the handle. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the needle-threading hook opened. Fig. 3 is a sectional view enlarged, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts or features, as the case may be, in all the views.

In carrying out my invention I may provide the handle of the looping-hooka with a groove 19, extending longitudinally of the same, and form a hole cin or through said handle in the .lineof said groove, in which hole I pivot the slightly upsetting the end or riveting it down upon a washer (2. With this construction the hook d can be readily closed, as shown .in Fig. 1, in which position the hook d will spring into the groove 19 and be held entirely out of p the Way of interference with the common uses of the looping-hook. If the yarn in the looping-needle should break, the hook d can be readily and quickly-opened or adjusted to the posit-ion shown in Fig. 2, and used in rethreading the needle, as hereinbefore described, and thus avoid the delay and annoyance heretofore experienced consequent upon soaping the end of the looping-yarn and threading the needle by the mere use of the fingers.

It is obvious that the needle-threading hook might be employed in connection with the handle of the looping-hook without the necessity of grooving the latter, and that the hook cl might be connected with the edge instead of the face of the handle; but these and other formal variations in the manner of connecting the threading-hook with the handle of the looping-hook, so that the former may be adjusted in opened or. closed position with respect to the latter, would not be a departure from the nature or spirit of my invention.

I am aware that loopers or looping-hooks have been used before for simply assisting the operator in running the loops at the edge of the knit fabric over the knitting-machine pins. I am also'aware that hooks have been used for drawing threads through threaded loops. These, therefore, I do not claim; but

What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A looping-hook used in the process of uniting the edges of knitted fabrics, provided with a needle-threading hook adapted to be needle should break and thus become un threaded.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of 15 two subscribing witnesses, this (3th day of April, A. D. 1889.

JOHN R. GOURD.

\Vitnesses:

ARTHUR W. CROSSLEY, C. F. BROWN. 

